1. Terroir, institutions and improvements in European wine history: an Introduction; Silvia A. Conca Messina, Stéphane Le Bras, Paolo Tedeschi, Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro -- 2. The “Grapes Country”. Portoguese viticulture from the early 19th century until the new millennium; Conceição...

In 1790, the Revolutionary government expropriated most property owned by the Church and its entities, and sold it by auction. This effectively ended the centuries-old participation of the Church in wine production in France. Focusing on Burgundy, this article sketches the contours of the sale...